The word “faith.” For some reason it has good connotations, when it is actually equivalent to “gullibility.” I don’t see how believing what people tell you no matter how far-fetched could ever be a good thing.

I get this a lot and it drives me crazy. If I’m having a conversation with you, where I don’t understand a particular point you made, I’ll let you know. I have a couple friends that use this phrase at the end of each point and then continue to the next without allowing me to address the first. It’s mind-boggling annoying.

It’s funny how many of these I am guilty of. Mainly because they are ingrained into my vocabulary from my theist, fatalist days. The non rational side of me likes to say “Everything happens for a reason” but the rational side of me says “No, it doesn’t,. There are only causes and effects but there is no predetermined outcome.”

I would add “Bless You” to the list and have actively started saying “Need a tissue?” “Are you okay?” instead.